Thursday, 10 March 2011
looking for distractions from work
I work at home most days and since it's quite loney just me and computer, there's always something to distract me and keep me busy. The last few weeks it's been the comings and goings of my new neighbour who is a youngish guy (early 30s) who lives opposite (I could describe his dimminutive height in politically incorrect terms but I'll hold back for now). Anyway,needless to say he provides me with endless distraction when I've exhausted the offerings of net-a-porter, asos.com and other such shopping portals as I search for any reason not to write a lecture or edit an academic paper. I have developed a morbid obbsession as I've learned from the neighbours next door to him that he claims to have come into an inheritance that enabled him to buy the house - £770,000 CASH! He doesn't go to work, but watches TV till the early hrs then pops to Budgens in his cut off sweat pants at noon (and that's not a pretty sight first thing in the morning). Since most inheritances usually amount to a Post Office savings account and a mangy old cat, I don't buy it. I think he's a lottery winner and I am sometimes consumed with curiosity and a tad of envy wondering what it would be like for money to be no object. And in the middle of Archway of all places (you'd expect it in banker territories like St John's Wood, but not round here).
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